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Historic maps of Great Altcar and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Great Altcar maps
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Lydiate| Sefton| Crosby| Formby| Blundellsands| Halsall| Freshfield| Ormskirk| Ainsdale| Scarisbrick| Walton| Croxteth| Burscough
Great Altcar area books
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Memories of Great Altcar
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Quarry House
Moved into Larchfield Road in 1952, aged 4. We used to play in an old mansion-style house we called Quarry House. It was situated on the corner of Virgins Lane opposite Edge Lane. Can anybody shed any light on this derelict house, before it was pulled down to make way for bungalows?
War Time
looking for war time pictures of 1940
The Army Firing Ranges at Little Altcar
In 1967 I enlisted with the Territorial Army and served five years with the Royal Corps of Signals. My basic training included learning to shoot with the 762 self loading rifle on the ranges near Hightown. My unit was the 42nd East Lancashire Squadron of the Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry which became part of 33rd Signal Regiment under the Army reorganisations about that time. I remember very well my surprise at the weight of the rifle and the powerful recoil which bruised my shoulder!
The firing ranges at that time had both grass and shingle with distances to fire of up to 1000 yards although in order to complete my basic training and subsequent annual range day qualifying it was only necessary to fire up to 300 yards. One of the exercises involved "advance to target" which meant carrying the rifle towards the butts and shooting from a prone position at 200 and 100 yards. If you got any closer it was possible to throw stones at... Read more
Our History in Brief
Although I had visited Hightown on many many occasions before this date to visit my Grandparents etc I particularly remember the days when myself and friends from Waterloo would visit Altcar Rifle Range to mark the targets after the rounds had hit, this was mainly for local gentry and clubs and received about two shillings each for the day.
We would raise our triangular wooden marking poles and point at the holes made by the bullets.
I was later in 1961 to visit this same range as a T A soldier prior to my enlistment to the Regular Army.(Liverpool Scottish T A to 1st Bn Queens Own Highlanders )
There I cut my teeth on weapons such as The Bren ( Light Machine Gun ) The Sten and the .303 Rifle.
I am now back in Hightown with my wife(Agnes and son John)
Our family history goes on.
I Remember The Bluebells!
Fifty years ago, I was 8 years old and lived in Crosby. Every morning I walked to school (Forefield Lane) along the Northern Road. I used to walk over the roundabout (there wasn't much traffic) and head towards the area where you now see the flats on the right hand side of the photo. I remember when all that area was wooded and in the spring, there was a profusion of gorgeous bluebells which drew me too them. I would stop to pick up a few to take to teacher in school.
Crosby, Myers Road East
That would be Scotts Bakery to the right, surprising us with sliced bread!!! in the 50's and Jump's Dairy to the right foreground; their cows would come in through that gap between the front and the other shops further down. Heigh Ho! I knew and played tennis with Billy Jump at the Brownmoor Club [1955-6] not far off right down Stuart Road, here in the foreground. In the 40's and early 50's, the grocer's on the left corner there used to sell butter from a great lump; "A pound of butter please", would have the gent carving off about that amount and 'patting' -- with butter pats -- it into manageable shape before weighing and wrapping in greaseproof paper. The local post-office is just off camera to the right in Stuart. The L8 and L2 Ribble Bus services both ran past the front of this intersection, turning down Endbutt Lane further off to the right.
Crosby - Rosedale Aveune
I was born in my grandparents' home in Rosedale Avenue in July 1947. I remember Crosby well, the cinema at the top of Endbutt Lane, going to church at St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, seeing the Beatles, and here I am in 2010 just back from a visit to my home village! So much has changed, some not for the good, Crown Buildings was knocked down last year, Sainsburys wants to expand and take over most of the village shutting all the little shops, there is another swimming pool on the beach at Mariners Road, (still looks like a space ship) there is also a sewerage plant, although disguised it still looks like an eyesore and as for the Anthony Gormly statues, don't get me started, a danger to all and rust buckets to boot! But I still love Crosby and will always go back to tend the family graves and to see relatives.
